Fortunate you are, then, for I couldn't afford not to worry over such matters. There were far too many consequences if affairs were mismanaged.

[ Too many people that depended upon him, both in the present and his past. So to speak, anyway. His past and a future that will no longer be, really. One wrong move, even if it were for the right reason, and everything would fall to ruin. Literally. ]

Though I suppose thinking in the short term is not exactly a bad thing in this case. It's not as though we know enough about the environment we've found ourselves in to rightfully make long term plans.